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- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
“Fail fast” has become the corporate innovation mantra, but new research suggests that inventions that build on science, with its systematic observation and methodical experiments, may deliver more value to companies. US patent filings... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 30 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay
University; and Sorabh Tomar of Southern Methodist University. Investigating the value of diversity US public firms aren’t required to publicly disclose their workforce demographics or policies, but corporations started sharing more data... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
database of startups and investors, to analyze collaboration patterns. The authors also sorted through press releases, news articles, and regulatory filings to augment and verify the data. Of the Crunchbase startups examined, 16... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 23 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why White-Collar Crime Spiked in America After 9/11
increase in the rate of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) filed by financial institutions, which cover such crimes as checking fraud, commercial loan fraud, and self-dealing. “Overall, the findings suggest that the FBI's reallocation of... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
mistake made. Our tests show that previously when there have been serious restatements of financials, those mistakes would lead to a certain number of lawsuits being filed and a certain settlement amount from them. The settlement amount... View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
labels (vs. text warning labels, calorie labels, and no labels), provided insight into psychological mechanisms driving effectiveness, and assessed consumer sentiment. Study 1 indicated that graphic warning labels reduced the share of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
filed since 1926, the team found that the percentage of patents that involved government support has risen steadily. While government R&D spending as a percentage of gross domestic product has declined since the mid-1980s, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
Is there a light at the end of the tunnel for General Motors? Or are those just headlights from an oncoming train? Among Harvard Business School faculty, it depends on whom you ask. The carmaker—home to such storied brands as Cadillac, Buick, and Chevrolet—enjoyed a 46... View Details
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
for small-business owners facing the possibility of bankruptcy as the country emerges from the pandemic. Small businesses, especially debt-laden or distressed ones, often can’t afford the more expensive Chapter 11 filing and instead View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
Digital Millennium Copyright Act | About
The unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material, including unauthorized peer-to-peer file sharing, violates the Copyright Act and may subject you to civil and criminal liabilities. Penalties for copyright infringement include civil... View Details
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
addresses, it will be much harder for them to grow. They have some options, like making more intensive use of the addresses they already have through address sharing (formally, network address translation, or NAT) or perhaps revisiting... View Details
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
person’s performance be tracked, and what factors will be evaluated to determine success? Evaluation measures could include sales or revenue goals, the number of patents filed or products launched, or customer satisfaction levels. 3. Who... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
see a ‘pandemic’ of bankruptcy filings in the near future,” Gilson says. “The pandemic analogy is particularly apt, in that if the number of new filings is sufficiently high, the bankruptcy courts, like... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
norms—but that social closure and decoupling should preserve the status quo. Empirical research has been difficult because we lack data on comparable private firms and because firms likely self-select into going public. We construct a new, nationally representative... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
through this.’” Salary and benefit cuts Many salary cuts in 2020 have been top-heavy, focused around boards of directors, CEOs, and other senior executives. During the pandemic, executive pay cuts are not about assigning blame but about executives shouldering their... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 07 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.
New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details
- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
no compensation. A class-action lawsuit against the state and the city was dismissed based on claims that the statute of limitations had expired. A new suit was filed against the city of Tulsa in September 2020 that remains unresolved.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
importing a text file (e.g., .csv), you may need to request up to 10x the size of the text file. We discourage ongoing reading and writing of text files; to save time and RAM, try to read your text files... View Details
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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services
tools or using LSF job arrays . Requesting multiple CPUs on the HBSGrid When using parallel processing on shared compute systems, you need to indicate to the scheduler, the system software that manages workloads, that you wish to use... View Details
- Web
Cloud Storage | Information Technology
also frequently involved cloud storage solutions to share documents, images and other files for any number of reasons which have nothing to do with Harvard or HBS. It's important to consider whether you are... View Details